Welcome

Welcome to Europe Explored. This website was set up at the beginning of 2020 to record my travels around the continent of Europe. I’ve always enjoyed exploring new places, but realise I’ve been very bad keeping a chronicle of my visits. This blog intends to change that. I’ve now reached a stage in life where I have the opportunity to travel more frequently and I will be posting about my trips.

My aim is to publish a new post every Friday – let’s see if I can stick to that.

Over the next few years I hope to take a number of trips (mainly by train) exploring the length and breadth of the continent. My inspiration for planning these trips has been the wonderful guide Europe by Rail by Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries. In planning, I must also acknowledge the invaluable assistance provided by the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although, the Internet is great at providing up-to-date rail timetable information, for initial ideas I still like to use the hard copy European Rail Timetable.

** – UPDATE (20 March 2020). The Covid-19 pandemic means that Europe Explored expeditions are postponed until further notice. As this blog was planned to provide reports from these trips, for the time being, new blog posts will only appear on the last Friday of each month. – **

** Further UPDATE (30 July 2021). With no prospect of viable multi-country travel for the foreseeable future, new blog post will now only appear when there is something new to say, rather than to a fixed schedule every month. I hope that regular updates will resume soon.**